Thrones rules. Game of Thrones' super-size Season 7 finale Sunday set another series record: 12.1 million viewers, 13% higher than the previous record for the HBO hit set just two weeks ago. With the Thrones lead-in boost, Ballers (2.9 million viewers) and Insecure (1.3 million) also set new viewer records.

VMUh-Ohs. MTV's annual Video Music Awards spectacular on Sunday continued to shrink, attracting 2.7 million viewers, down for the fourth season in a row, including an 18% drop from last year.

Playing Trump card. Saturday Night Live's summer presentation of Weekend Update, which featured its first appearance of Alec Baldwin's President Trump, scored 5.1 million viewers on NBC Thursday (up 6% from the previous week), the biggest audience of the three August broadcasts.